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A consultant doctor has told jurors in an attempted murder trial that the victim could have been struck up to five times in the head with a lump hammer while she slept.

Paul Bond, 62, fractured Dr Marian Bond's skull and jaw multiple times while she slept, leaving her in a critical condition when he attacked her at their £1 million home in the Cambridgeshire village of Over, the court was told.

Following the attack on July 11, Bond then placed the blood-stained lump hammer under a pillow on the bed and called the emergency services, it is alleged.

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Opening the case on Tuesday afternoon (January 3) at Cambridge Crown Court, prosecutor Amjad Malik QC said: "This defendant made a decision to attack his wife and he chose a time when she would be in her most vulnerable state."

This afternoon (Thursday) jurors were shown seven CT scans of Dr Marian Bond's skull, which showed two clear impacts - one to the left side of the face above the ear and another to the jaw.

In addition to this Dr Curtis Offiah, a consultant doctor specialising in neuro, trauma and forensic radiology, gave evidence.

He said Dr Marian Bond suffered injuries consistent with a "total of two" definite discreet high energy blunt force impacts.

However, he added: "My impression is that there may probably have been an additional one, two or three impacts".

"There has to have been a further discreet injury to the left side of the face in addition to the first impact."

Dr Offiah said this second injury shown on the CT scan could have occurred as a result of the victim's face resting on a hard surface whilst the left side of her head was being impacted.

However, he said if Dr Bond had been laying on the mattress or pillows of the bed during the attack - this would not have been a sufficient hard surface [to have caused the second injury].

Jurors also heard from forensic pathologist Dr Nathaniel Carey, who said there had been no defensive injuries to Dr Marian Bond's hands and forearms - which is "in keeping" with her being caught by surprise and struck while she's asleep.

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Dr Marian Bond, also 62, who worked in the Animal & Environmental Biology department at Anglia Ruskin University's Cambridge campus, was rushed to Addenbrooke's after paramedics found her lying unconscious on the bed.

The attack had shattered her skull and jaw. She was placed in an induced coma and had part of her skull removed as doctors fought to save her life.

She has since made a recovery but will be scarred for life by the attack.

Bond, who ran a computing business from their home, denies attempted murder.

The jury was told that Bond had previously pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of intending to cause his wife grievous bodily harm at the same court on November 2.

But this was rejected by the Crown, which claims Bond intended to kill his wife.

The trial continues, with the defence case set to open tomorrow morning (Friday).